Join the AI thought leaders for two days of powerful talks and unbeatable networking.
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Agenda
7:30 am
Wednesday
July 10th
8:00 am
9:00 am
Continental 1-4
9:15 am
Continental 1-4
9:40 am
Continental 1-4
Registration and Breakfast presented by Bold360
Welcome - Stewart Rogers, Analyst-at-Large, VentureBeat
Opening Remarks - Matt Marshall, Founder & CEO, VentureBeat
Vanja Josifovski, CTO, Homes, Airbnb
Moderator: Matt Marshall, Founder & CEO, VentureBeat
Fireside Chat
Julie Choi, VP, Artificial Intelligence Products Group, Intel,
Jessica Wang, VP Marketing, Mixpanel
Women in AI Breakfast Recap
9:50 am
Continental 1-4
10:15 am
Continental 1-4
Kevin Scott, EVP & CTO, Microsoft
Moderator: Deepak Agarwal, VP of Artificial Intelligence, LinkedIn
Fireside Chat
10:40 am
Continental 1-4
Companies: Cognitive Scale, Applied Brain Research, integrate.ai, AI Foundry, D-ID
11:10 am
Networking Break for industry verticals (Expo Ballroom):
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Gaming
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Manufacturing
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Retail/Commerce
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Finance
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Health
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Energy/Manufacturing
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Government
11:45 am - 12:35 pm
Titan Panel: The state of Conversational AI, and where the 'platforms' are taking it
Panel
12:00 - 12:30 pm | Continental 6
Moderator: Amit Ben, Head of Technology & AI, LogMeIn
Fireside Chat
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Plaza A
Mike Fisher, CTO, Etsy
Moderator: Lauren Kunze, CEO, PandoraBots
Panel
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Plaza A
Robinson Piramuthu, Chief Scientist for Computer Vision, eBay, Dr. Colin J. Parris, Vice President, GE Software Research, GE
Moderator: Nicole Alexander, SVP, Chief Innovation Expert, Ipsos
News in the age of Algorithmic Recommendation
Fireside Chat/Prezo
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Continental 1-4
Nick Rockwell, EVP & CTO, The New York Times
Moderator: Jaime Fitzgibbon, Innovation Strategist & Director of the San Francisco Innovation Hub, Booz Allen Hamilton
The promise of Reinforcement Learning: Moving to a more general AI
Panel
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Continental 1-4
Ganapathi Pulipaka, Chief Data Scientist, Accenture
Moderator: Joe Maglitta, VentureBeat
How to use AI efficiently across your entire organization
Prezo
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Imperial B
Deepak Agarwal, VP of AI, LinkedIn
& Souvik Ghosh, Principal Staff Engineer and Scientist, LinkedIn
Building a best-practice AI product platform: The story of Gap Inc.
Prezo
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Imperial B
Chris Chapo, SVP of Data & Analytics, Gap, Inc.
The massive opportunities wrought by IoT and AI at the edge
Panel
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Yosemite B
Neil Green, Chief Digital Officer & VP of Transformation, Otis,
Mark Chaney, Precision Ag Job Automation, John Deere
Moderator: Mark Patel, Senior Partner, McKinsey
AI at the Edge: Opportunities and Innovation in IoT
Prezo
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Yosemite B
Farshid Sabet, GM of Vision Markets, IOTG Business Unit, Intel
How to prepare for a Machine Learning-infused future for enterprise process automation
Panel
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Imperial A
PD Singh, Vice President of AI, UiPath & Brian Bond, VP of Consumer & Small Business Repair of CenturyLink
Moderator: Saurabh Gupta, Chief Strategy Officer, HfS Research
The Enterprise Automation Journey: Lessons learned with E&J Gallo
Panel
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Imperial A
Ted Shelton, Chief Customer Officer, Catalytic & Chad Rich, Sr. Director IT, Commerical Applications & Innovation, E. & J. Gallo Winery
5 biggest lessons learned when implementing AI
Prezo
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Plaza B
Matthias Keller, Chief Scientist & SVP, Kayak
How do you attract and keep top talent, if you aren’t an AI-first company?
Panel
12:15 - 12:40 pm | Plaza B
Nick Rockwell, CTO, New York Times, Shelia Anderson,CIO, Corporate Functions Technology, Liberty Mutual
Moderator: Amir Shevat, Co-founder & CPO, ShiftJS
12:35 pm
Lunch presented by Bold360
Expo Open
1:30 pm -
3:30 pm
1:40 pm
Continental 1-4
Andrew Moore, Head of Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: Jana Eggers, CEO, Nara Logics
Fireside Chat
2:05 pm
Continental 1-4
Greg Brockman, Co-founder & Chairman & Ilya Sutskever,
Co-founder & Chief Scientist, OpenAI
Moderator: Kyle Wiggers, Staff Writer, VentureBeat
Fireside Chat
2:30 pm
Continental 1-4
Companies: Mesmer; Aperture Data; Spoke; Kinetica;
Inference Solutions
3:00 pm
Break presented by Bold360
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Panel
3:30-3:55 pm | Continental 6
Piers Lingle, SVP of Customer Experience, Comcast, Ambreen Molitor, Senior Director, Digital Product Lab, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Dr. Jason Mars is Co-founder & CEO, Clinc, Burak Arik, CEO of MaxiTech Inc., a subsidiary of Isbank
Moderator: Vamsi Eswara, Chief Technology Officer of Conversational AI, Cognizant
Big picture: Where we are in understanding natural language
Prezo
3:55 - 4:20 pm | Continental 6
Bryan McCann, Senior Research Scientist, Salesforce
Royal Caribbean & Computer Vision: Finding Balance with Humans & Algorithms - Levatas
Prezo
3:30 - 4:05 pm | Plaza A
Matt Denesuk, SVP, Data Analytics & AI, Royal Caribbean,
Daniel Bruce, Chief AI Officer, Levatas,
David Milone, Project Manager & Lead UX Strategist, Levatas
The amazing Improvements in image recognition
Panel
4:05 - 4:30 pm | Plaza A
Jasjeet Thind, VP of Artifical Intelligence, Zillow, Boston Dynamics
Chuck Rosenberg, Head of Computer Vision, Pinterest
Moderator: Cathy Hackl, Futurist, AR VR Author + Enterprise Strategy at Magic Leap
How to personalize in the age of privacy. Case study: Kayak
Fireside Chat
3:55 - 4:20 pm | Continental 1-4
Matthias Keller, Chief Scientist & SVP, Kayak
Moderator: Maggie Rauch, Senior Director, Research, Phocuswright
Using AI to Safeguard Consumer Content and Feedback - Hosted by Trustpilot
Prezo
3:30 - 3:55 pm | Imperial B
Ramin Vatanparast, Chief Product Officer, Trustpilot
Moderator: Seth Colaner, AI Editor, VentureBeat
What it means to be an ‘All-in data & AI company’: Stitch Fix
Fireside Chat
3:55 - 4:20 pm | Imperial B
Brad Klingenberg, VP of Algorithms, Stitchfix
Moderator: Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
How Does the Enterprise Respond to the Rise of AI and Edge Computing?
Panel
3:30 - 3:55 pm | Yosemite B
Irina Farooq, Chief Product Officer, Kinetica; Neal Oman, VP of Research, HERE
Moderator: Steve Teig, Chief Technology Officer, Xperi Corporation
Panel
3:30 - 3:55 pm | Imperial A
Herve Coureil, Chief Digital Officer, Schneider Electric, John Cottongim, Automation Director, Mars
Moderator: Saurabh Gupta, Chief Strategy Officer, HfS Research
Town Hall
3:30 - 3:55 pm | Plaza B
Carole Piovesan, Partner and Cofounder, INQ Data Law; Poornima Ramaswamy, VP AI and Analytics, Cognizant
Cognitive AI – How the evolution of AI is impacting business
Prezo
3:55 - 4:20 pm | Plaza B
Yonatan Hagos, Chief Product Officer, Beyond Limits
4:20 pm
Break presented by Bold360
4:40 pm- 5:10 pm
Ecommerce, messaging and conversion: Lessons from the leaders
Panel
4:40 - 5:10 pm | Continental 6
Ella Hilal, Director of Data, Shopify, Bahman Bahmani, VP of Data Science and Engineering, Rakuten
Moderator: Brian Bagdasarian, Senior Manager - Digital Engagement & Conversational Marketing Strategy, LogMeIn
Panel
4:40 - 5:05 pm | Plaza A
Daniel Wulin, Head of Data Science & Machine Learning, Wayfair, Stephanie Rogers, Senior Product Manager, Recommendations, Pinterest
Moderator: Sam Charrington, Host, This Week in Machine Learning & AI Podcast
How to develop and deploy AI responsibly
Panel
4:40 - 5:05 pm | Continental 1-4
Margaret Mitchell, Senior Research Scientist, Google, Kathy Baxter, Architect, Ethical AI Practice, Salesforce, Tim O'Brien, GM, AI Programs, Microsoft
Moderator: Lori Sherer, Partner, Bain & Company
Toppling the Ivory Tower: Creating a “Research” Organization for Innovating in a Fast-paced AI World
Prezo
5:05 - 5:30 pm | Continental 1-4
Bharath Kadaba, SVP & Chief Innovation Officer, Intuit
Moderator: Anima Anandkumar, Director of ML Research, NVIDIA & Bren Professor, Caltech
The Path to Digital Transformation
Panel
4:40 - 5:05 pm | Imperial B
Marc Leibowitz, Global Head, Digital, Johnson & Johnson, Shelia Anderson,CIO, Corporate Functions Technology, Liberty Mutual
Moderator: Jaime Fitzgibbon, Innovation Strategist & Director of the San Francisco Innovation Hub, Booz Allen Hamilton
Panel
4:40 - 5:05 pm | Yosemite B
Miku Jha, Founder & CEO, AgShift, Janet George, Fellow, Chief Data Officer, Western Digital
Moderator: John McElligott, CEO, York Exponential
Delivering automation at scale: From demand generation to running a successful bot operation
Panel
4:40 - 5:05 pm | Imperial A
John Cottongim, Automation Director, Mars
The big trends for 2020. What comes after AI?
Prezo
4:40 - 5:05 pm | Plaza B
Dongyan Wang, VP AI Transformation, Landing AI
Whiteboard session: Apply AI to decision-making in your business
Prezo
5:05 - 5:30 pm | Plaza B
Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI, Cognizant
5:30 pm
Cocktail Reception presented by Bold360
Expo Open
Thursday
July 11th
8:00 am
9:05 am
Continental 1-4
Registration & Breakfast presented by Bold360
9:10 am
Continental 1-4
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Overview
Rodney Sampson, Chairman & CEO, Opportunity Hub
9:20 am
Continental 1-4
John Fremont, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Hypergiant
Moderator: Heidi Messer, Cofounder and Chairperson, Collective[i]
Fireside Chat
9:45 am
Continental 1-4
10:15 am
Continental 1-4
10:40 am
Continental 1-4
Companies: Skymind, Techsee, EngineML, Brainworks, Unravel
11:10 am
Networking Break for industry verticals (Expo Ballroom):
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Gaming
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Manufacturing
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Retail/Commerce
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Finance
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Health
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Energy/Manufacturing
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Government
VIP Advisory (invitation only) - location Franciscan B
11:45 am - 12:35 pm
Customer support: Impressive stories you’ll want to write home to your CMO about
Panel
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Continental 6
Vishy Krishnamoorthy, Chief Product Officer, Humana, Scott Bajtos, Chief Customer Officer, VMware
Moderator: Julie Ask, Vice President, Forrester Research
Customer journey: Making it personal, but not creepy
Panel
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Continental 6
Chris Hansen, Senior Director, Digital, TGI Fridays, Jessica Lachs, VP of Analytics, Doordash, Chris Williams, CPO, iheartmedia
Moderator: Lauren McCollem, Vice President, Marketing, Customer Engagement & Support Solutions, LogMeIn
The latest facial recognition tech, and its moral crisis
Panel
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Plaza A
Matt Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai, Gil Perry, CEO and Founder, D-ID
Moderator: Nicole Alexander, SVP, Chief Innovation Expert, Ipsos
What the heck does it even mean to “Do AI”?
Panel
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Continental 1-4
Deborah Leff, Global Leader and Industry CTO for Data Science and AI, IBM, Chris Chapo, SVP of Data & Analytics, Gap, Inc.
Creating a “framework” for AI decision-making
Fireside Chat
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Continental 1-4
Ram Papatla, Head of Experiences, Booking.com
Moderator: Rachel Payne, CEO, FEM Inc.
Using AI for forecasting across your business
Prezo
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Imperial B
Franziska Bell, Director, Data Science, Uber
Using AI at scale with 100 percent reliability:
Case study of a major defense contractor
Fireside Chat
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Imperial B
Dr. Shane Zabel, Chief AI Intelligence Officer, Raytheon and Jana Eggers, CEO, Nara Logics
Panel
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Yosemite B
Ash Fontana, General Partner, Zetta Ventures, Vijay Reddy, Investment Director, Intel Capital, Priya Saiprasad, Venture Capitalist, Mayfield Fund
Moderator: Joe Maglitta, VentureBeat
One-stop shops: How Walmart and NVIDIA are transforming retail with GPUs
Panel
12:10 - 12:35 pm | Yosemite B
Bill Groves, Chief Data Officer, Walmart & Josh Patterson, GM of Data Science, NVIDIA
Moderator: Maribel Lopez, Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research
The new augmented analytics driving intelligent automation
Prezo
11:45 - 12:10 pm | Imperial A
Ben Arnulf, Senior Director Product Management Strategy Data & Analytics, Oracle
Design thinking around AI projects
Workshop
11:45 - 12:35 pm | Plaza B
Yolanda Wang, Associate Partner, AI & Analytics - Consumer Industries, IBM & Chad H. Smith, Associate Partner, AI & Analytics - Consumer Industries, IBM
12:35 pm
Lunch presented by Bold360
Expo Open
1:35 pm
Continental 1-4
2:00 pm
Continental 1-4
Amir Khosrowshahi, VP & CTO, AI Products and Jonathan Ballon, VP, GM iOt, Intel
Moderator: Maribel Lopez, Founder & Principal Analyst,
Lopez Research
Fireside Chat
2:25 pm
Continental 1-4
Jerome Pesenti, VP of AI, Facebook
Moderator: Matt Marshall, Founder & CEO, VentureBeat
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Modern CX: The Impact of AI Across the Entire Customer Journey
3:00 - 3:25 pm | Continental 6
Ryan Lester, Senior Director, Customer Experience Technologies, LogMeIn
Operationalizing Voice AI: From Hype to Reality
3:25 - 3:50 pm | Continental 6
Beaumont Vance, Director of Digital, AI and Automation, TD Ameritrade
3:00 - 3:25 pm | Plaza A
Yosi Taguri, Co-Founder, Head of MissingLink.ai
AI for Digital Patient Experiences
3:25 - 3:50 pm | Plaza A
Jeff Cutler, Chief Commercial Officer, Ada Health & Albert Chan, Chief of Digital Patient Experience, Sutter Health
Moderator: Serrah Linares, VP, Customer Success and Commercial Operations, Kensci
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Imperative in AI Design
3:00 - 3:25 pm | Continental 1-4
Rumman Chowdhury, Managing Director, Accenture AI,
Lade Obamehinti, Technical Business Lead, AR/VR Software, FacebookModerator: Rodney Sampson, Chairman & CEO, Opportunity Hub
Centralize or decentralize AI expertise? Which one is better?
3:25 - 3:50 pm | Continental 1-4
Alberto Lopez Toledo, CTO, Freshly, Mike Haley, Head of Machine Intelligence, Autodesk, Al Brown, SVP, Engineering, Veritone
Moderator: Pedro Alves, CEO, Ople.ai
How to implement AI at massive scale
3:00 - 3:25 pm | Imperial B
Gil Arditi, Head of Product, Machine Learning, Lyft, Jeff Feng, Product lead, Data, Airbnb
How to take your AI platform to platform scale: (eBay & e-commerce)
Fireside Chat
3:25 - 3:55 pm | Imperial B
Sanjeev Katariya, VP of Platforms and AI, eBay
Moderator: Maribel Lopez, Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research
Prezo
3:00 - 3:25 pm | Yosemite B
Kishore Chakravadhanula, Product Manager, Robotics, Qualcomm Technologies & Jean-Baptiste Passot, VP of AI and Product, Brain Corp
How Walmart transformed grocery shopping at scale
Panel
3:25 - 3:55 pm | Yosemite B
Aanan Contractor, VP, Customer Experience Engineering, & Lucinda Newcomb, VP Personalization & Discovery, Walmart Ecommerce
Moderator: Rachel Payne, CEO, FEM Inc.
VC Panel: Trends in investing in intelligent RPA
3:00 - 3:25 pm | Imperial A
Guru Chahal from Lightspeed Ventures, Lan Xuezhao,
CEO, Basis Set Ventures
Moderator: Seth Colaner, VentureBeat
How to intelligently automate business process
3:25 - 3:50 pm | Imperial A
Michael Setticasi, Sr. Director of Technology Alliances, DataRobot, Stefan Groschupf, Founder & CEO, Automation Hero
Moderator: Ted Shelton, Chief Customer Officer, Catalytic
How the games industry is building a superior AI
3:00 - 3:25 pm | Plaza B
Danny Lange, VP of AI and Machine Learning, Unity Technologies
Recent advancements in AI algorithms and systems
3:35 - 4:00 pm | Plaza B
Gil Arditi, Head of Product, Machine Learning, Lyft
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Yosemite C
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in AI Roundtable
Hosted by: Rodney Sampson, Founder & CEO, OHUB
3:50 pm
Break presented by Bold360
4:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Building a virtual agent, one that can actually correspond and engage with your users
4:10 - 4:50 pm | Continental 6
Moderators: Nancy Jamison, Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
Media industry: How are publishers using AI to get an edge
Fireside Chat
4:10 - 4:35 pm | Continental 1-4
Lindsay Silver, VP, Product, CondeNast
Moderator: Rich Karlgaard, Editor-at-large and Futurist, Forbes
Adopting AI / ML and Avoiding Pitfalls Along the Way - Hosted by BlueData
Prezo
4:10 - 4:35 pm | Imperial B
Victor Ghadban, Field CTO, AI/ML, BlueData
4:35 - 5:00 pm | Imperial B
Fernando Nunez-Mendoza, Co-Founder, CEO & CTO, fonYou
Privacy, Federated Cloud Learning and Digital Transformation Shifts in Healthcare
Panel
4:10 - 4:35 pm | Yosemite B
Ted Goldstein, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Anthem AI
Sam De Brouwer, Cofounder, COO doc.ai
Moderator: Serrah Linares, VP, Customer Success and Commercial Operations, Kensci
Standardizing and scaling AI in your organization
Panel
4:10 - 4:35 pm | Plaza B
Andrew Hoh, Product Manager, Applied Machine Learning & Machine Learning, Airbnb, Anil Kamath, VP of Technology, Adobe
Moderator: Seth Colaner, AI Editor, VentureBeat
Semantic Search: Success stories
Fireside Chat
4:35 - 5:00 pm | Plaza B
Ameen Kazerouni, Lead Data Scientist, Zappos
Moderator: Joe Maglitta, VentureBeat
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm